Wrath of Dagon

Rauf said US was complicit in 9/11, refuses to condemn Hamas, blames the West whenever he's asked about causes of terrorism, and wants US to be sharia compliant (see Time magazine cover). The name of the Cordoba foundation is a not so subtle hint that Spain belongs to Muslims. The real question is where you're getting your information from.

Right or wrong, it was Bush who made the decision to go to war, not Saddam.

Honestly, I've played all Obsidian games and I do not see all those great innovation if we compare them to Bioware games. Can you make some example so I can understand? Having said that, innovation for innovation is not good for me if the final result is poorly implemented. I mean, if we consider Kotor 2 final or Soz exploration feature as innovation... well, I take all the time trite Bioware design that at least makes good and mostly polished games with a winning formula. I didn't say "great innovation". I said they're at least trying to do something interesting, don't make a strawman. For example, in AP they at least implemented a lot of permutations for player's choices, and also tried to evolve RPG into a more constrained yet responsive form (it was constrained presumably because of a lack of resources, but like I said at least they're trying). Bioware is just repeating their formula ad nauseum, and on top of that their games have really degenerated lately.

It's fair to say that Bush was responsible for the Iraq war. I don't think he can be fairly blamed for the financial crisis. Yes, in theory it was preventable and it happened on his watch, but realistically none of our leaders would have had the wisdom and the political courage to prevent it.

Actually they don't. Not for the last 5 years anyway. I don't know. Obsidian have published two games so far that are sequels of Bioware titles. And a shooter with RPG elements (that reminds me of something but I could be wrong). The only game with a design that was clearly different from Bioware titles so far has been Storms of Zehir wich was an expansion of NWN. I'm not saying that Obsidian is not creative and talented. Only that I do not see all those differences in terms of design and that the two company influence a lot each other. The difference is Obsidian is at least trying to do something interesting, Bioware has become incredibly trite. Yes, they made sequels but the originals are more than 5 yrs old, hence my caveat.

Actually they don't. Not for the last 5 years anyway.

That and the fact that the Muslims consider him a Muslim through his father, and it's likely that he was raised as a Muslim in Indonesia.

Not if it's against the law in that state.

It's perfectly reasonable not to believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

Pretty amazing article: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29983/G..._Weaknesses.php My favorite quote:

Wow, there's a faulty echo on the forum.

Didn't the British already try to force China to legalize opium?

Newsweek, lolz, there's a reason they're about to disappear.

They should lose the piss filter.

You don't investigate, you jump to a stupid conclusion, makes sense to me in an RPG. But may be that should be explained to the previewers, so they don't make the game look bad through their own ignorance.

I was wrong about the electoral college having proportional representation, since each state gets electors for its senators. Also this article make a strong case for why it's a good thing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100812/cm_csm/319397

Sort of related to the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/educatio...amp;ref=science

Now this I think is an argument that has teeth. Under the "Full Faith and Credit" clause any agreement (remember marriage is a contract in the eyes of the law) made in one state is binding in another. If a couple was married in Iowa the shuold also be married as far as CA is concerned. If they were not then they can make a compelling argument for injury under both the Full Faith and Credit clause and the 14th amendment. I wonder why this has not been tried yet? It seems like the way to go to me. Enoch and I were discussing it once and he did not think it could win. He is certainly better infomred on this kind of thing than I am but it sounds like a no brainer to me. I may be remembering wrong, but I thought that was exactly the issue when the Defence of Marriage Act was appealed before the Supreme Court. They said it only applies to enforcing valid contracts, else every state would have to accept every law that another state passes, or something to that effect.

You don't know what the make up of the Supreme Court will be like by then. And did I miss the news, has Breyer quit being liberal at some point? It's not minutiae, it's the most important guaranty of our rights that exists. Of course that may be hard to grasp to a royalist. And there's no guaranty of equality under US constitution, there's a guaranty of equal protection under the law.

A lot of good games there, of the ones I've played Thief DS is my second favorite game ever, Metro 2033 is a good shooter, great atmosphere, and BG&E is very good also, the stealth is quite reminicent of Thief but not as deep.

Well, if you think about it, most game commercials feature CG cutscenes, so it's a marketing thing.

It wouldn't make much of a difference since the votes are still proportionally allocated. It would simply eliminate the case where someone could win more states by a narrower margin and defeat someone who wins fewer states by big margins. The real constraint on the big states is the Senate, not the presidential electors.

Laidlaw said The 500K discrepancy may just be an estimate artifact (game may have sold better in Europe, half of 360's are outside US, also there're more PS3's in Europe, EA shipped extra copies, etc), it still sounds too high to me. If I had to guess, I'd guess 200K, but that's nothing but intuition.

But DA2 is turning into Dragon Effect, so it begs the question why a game that garnered success on its on values needs to imitate another. The only signinficant thing changing for the console version is PC voiceover, and that's because most people prefer that. It's the same reasoning Bio used for why TOR is going to have full voice over.

I wonder what the Ninth Circus is going to think about the guy completely ignoring higher court precedents.